Baptisia

(bap-tiz’e-ah) [L.; Gr. Bawrifew to dyel. A genus of leguminous plants. Β. tincto’ria, an herb of North America, is cathartic, emetic, antiseptic, etc. It is used it typhoid and typhus fevers, in amenorrhea, and is applied locally to gangrenous sores and ulcers. Dose of extract, 1-10 gr. (0.066-0.060 gm.); of fluidextract, 2-20 min. (0.12-1.25 c.c.); of tincture, 10-30 min. (0.65- 2 c.c.); of resin, 1-5 gr. (0.066-0.333 gm.).